Feedeeick latulip



' UNITED STATES ATnNT e Fries.

FREDERICK LATULIP, OF SYRAGUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS WV.MEACHEM, OF SAME PLACE.

FERRULE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,957, dated November13, 1888. Q Application filed January Q3, 1888. Serial No. 261,571. (Nomodel.)

clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in tool heads and handles.

Heretofore handles have been provided with rawhide ferrules or capsformed by pressing a softened disk of rawhide into the shape of a cap bymeans of male and female dies, after which the soft iiexible cap isremoved from the male die and placed upon a form to dry, and when thecap becomes sufliciently hard and dryit is removed from the form andturned up, finished, and coated upon the exterior and interior withwater-proof varnish, thereby forming, as a new article of manufacture,aenpshaped cap which can be placed upon a handle of a whip or likearticle, and is formed of rawhide, varnished, turned up and finished,and kept in place by winding thread, cord, or by placing a metal clamparound the ferrule or whip-handle to retain it in position. Thesefinished caps are applied to the ends of whiphandles and secured to thesame by the means above mentioned or by adhesive material, or pinsdriven through the cylindrical port-ion; but these old devicesheretofore in use possess many defects, the caps are apt to be misplacedand lost, and are liable to become detached from their handles, and willnot operate to serve my purpose whatever, and it is a very troublesome,expensive, and lengthy process by which the caps are separatelymanufactured and after being com pleted secured to the handle by meansexceedingly liable to injure both cap and handle.

The object of my invention is to provide a handle or tool-head havingindentations or serrations on the periphery ofthe handle and providedwith one or more rawhide caps or ferrules formed directly on one or bothofthe ends and held firmly and securely to the handle or tool-head bythe rawhide being shrunk into and drying in said indentations andtightly around the handle in the first instance, when it becomes usuallya part of the handle.

With these ends in View myinvention consists of a tool head or handleprovided with one or more rawhide caps or ferrules formed directly andpermanently, and shrunk and hardened upon one or both of its ends.

Figure l isa side view of a handle such as is used on chisels andsimilar tools fitted with my ferrules. Fig. 2 is a section of the same,and Fig. 3 is a side view of a mallct having its head protected bysimilar ferrules.

In the drawings, the reference-letter a indicates atool-handle,whetherfor chisels,spades, or rakes, Src., or a hammer ormallet head, (see Fig. 3,) and said handle or head is provided at itsend or ends upon which the cap' or ferrule is to be formed with one ormore serrations, grooves, or indentations, a.

The ferrule b is made of rawhide,and is first cut out in the form of adisk of proper size, and for the lower end of the handle the disk isformed with a central opening to permit the passage of the tang or shankof the tool. This disk is well soaked in water or its equivalent tosoften it thoroughly, and is then placed over the handle end and thewhole driven into a suitable hollow form, by which the edges of the diskare pressed down over the side of the handle and forms a cup-shapedferrule,which is pressed into the grooves, serrations, or inequalitiesof the handle or head, and is thus rmlyvheld in place. The whole isallowed to dry before being removed from the form, and when completedthe end of the handle or head is incased in a 'rawhide ferrule firmlysetin proper form, and forming an article of great strength and durability,not subject to splitting or cracking under any conditions.

This ferrule I intend using in any place where ferrules are needed andupon any desired article or tool; but it is especially valuable whenused upon tools subject to hammering or blows-as chisels, mallets,Ste-and effectually prevents any fraying of the end of the wood orsplitting of the same, even when inferior woods are used, and cheaphandles are readily made therewith possessing equal strength anddurability with the expensive and hard woods.

No amount of hammering will in any way split or affect this ferrule orsplit or fray the wood to whichl it is applied.

IOO

It is evident that a tool handle or head prov grooves, selratious, orinequalities iu its pen vided with the rawhide ferrules or capsformedriph'ery and provided with one or more raw- 2o permanently on andallowed to harden and hide caps to serve as ferrules formed permashrnkupon its ends, as described, is a 'new' nently and directly upon one orboth of its 5 article Aof great utility, exceedingly simple, ends andshrunk into said serrations or inand easy to manufacture, and extremelycheap equalities, as set forth. in rst cost, and of great durability anduse- In testimony whereof I havehereuuto signed 25 fulness. my name, inthe presence of two attesting In constructing the handles 0r heads,after witnesses, at Syracuse, inthe county of Onon- Io the rawhide capsor ferrules have been shrunk daga, in the State of New York, this 13thday upon the ends of the same, the article can be of January, 1888.placed in a lathe and the whole turned and finished.

Having thus fully described my invention,

15 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by hi FREDERICK XS LATULIP.

mark

Letters Patent, is- W`itnesses:

The herein-described tool head or handle, r W. C. MUARTHUR, as animproved article of manufacture,having J. P. AUMQND.

